Gansu Uyghur Kingdom
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| Gansu Uyghur Kingdom | ||||||||
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[[File: |250px|center|alt=|Location of Gansu Uyghur Kingdom]] |
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| Capital | Dunhuang | |||||||
| Languages | Old Uyghur language | |||||||
| Religion | Manichaeism Buddhism |
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| Government | Monarchy | |||||||
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| • | Established | c.848 | ||||||
| • | Disestablished | 1036 | ||||||
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The Gansu Uyghur Kingdom was established around 848, by the Uyghurs after the fall of the Uyghur Khaganate in 840.[1][2] The kingdom lasted from 848-1036; during that time, many of Gansu's residents converted to Buddhism.[3]
The Gansu area was, traditionally, a Chinese inroad into Asia. By the ninth century the Uyghurs had come to dominate the area, taking over from the Tibetan Empire. The area had become a "commercially critical region", making the Uyghur wealthy and cosmopolitan. By the early 11th century, they were in turn conquered by the Tangut people.[4]
Modern era
The modern day descendants of the Gansu Uyghur kingdom are known as Yugur.[5]
See also
- Turkic peoples
- Timeline of the Turkic peoples (500–1300)
- List of Turkic dynasties and countries
- Uyghur Khaganate
- Kingdom of Qocho
References
- ↑ Peter B. Golden, Central Asia in World History, (Oxford University Press, 2011), 47.
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- ↑ Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity, H. J. Klimkeit, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol.4, Part 2, ed. Clifford Edmund Bosworth, M.S.Asimov, (Motilal Banarsidass, 2003), 70.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity, H. J. Klimkeit, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol.4, Part 2, 70
- Fu-Hsüeh, Yang. 1994. “On the Sha-chou Uighur Kingdom”. Central Asiatic Journal 38 (1). Harrassowitz Verlag: 80–107. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41929460.
